Guiding Question: How do new media replicate old media? What new affordances do new media provide? What niche has each new medium carved out for itself? What are the rhetorical characteristics of each of the new media?
Order Email project: add to wiki Blogs project: set up your own blog and contribute regularly by reflecting on what you have read and observed and deduced with each new medium; begin following at least three other blogs; add to wiki Wikis project: add to wiki, analyze some recent edits to wikipedia in one or more blog entries Slideshows: create a standalone slideshow using Powerpoint or Keynote; save as video and upload to YouTube, TeacherTube, etc.; add to wiki Web: create a focused website (recommended GoogleSites); add to wiki Social Networks: Create a Facebook account if you don't have one; Create a twitter account if you don't have one; begin following others; add to wiki; write extensive analysis of the rhetoric of social networks in a blog entry; add to wiki Video: project: using iMovie or Windows MovieMaker, create and edit a five-minute video for uploading to YouTube or another online video site; add to wiki
For each new medium above, add two additional readings to the wiki entry.
The wiki you are adding text and graphics and bibliographic entries to can be found at <http://eng422.wikispaces.com/>. You will need to log onto that site and request to "join" it in order to edit it.
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Guiding Question: How do new media replicate old media? What new affordances do new media provide? What niche has each new medium carved out for itself? What are the rhetorical characteristics of each of the new media?Order
Email project: add to wiki
Blogs project: set up your own blog and contribute regularly by reflecting on what you have read and observed and deduced with each new medium; begin following at least three other blogs; add to wiki
Wikis project: add to wiki, analyze some recent edits to wikipedia in one or more blog entries
Slideshows: create a standalone slideshow using Powerpoint or Keynote; save as video and upload to YouTube, TeacherTube, etc.; add to wiki
Web: create a focused website (recommended GoogleSites); add to wiki
Social Networks: Create a Facebook account if you don't have one; Create a twitter account if you don't have one; begin following others; add to wiki; write extensive analysis of the rhetoric of social networks in a blog entry; add to wiki
Video: project: using iMovie or Windows MovieMaker, create and edit a five-minute video for uploading to YouTube or another online video site; add to wiki
For each new medium above, add two additional readings to the wiki entry.
The wiki you are adding text and graphics and bibliographic entries to can be found at <http://eng422.wikispaces.com/>. You will need to log onto that site and request to "join" it in order to edit it.